Owl at Home Instructional Guide: Guided lessons that deepen early readers' comprehension

Support young readers through thoughtful, text-dependent activities.

Product Overview:

You want lesson materials that actually fit the way young readers learn. This guide hands you short, focused tasks and student pages you can use tomorrow. Built around Arnold Lobel's Owl at Home, it treats each story as a tiny laboratory for thinking. You, the teacher or caregiver, get clear directions, quick assessments and reproducible worksheets. Use it for close reading practice, vocabulary work, story-element charts or cross-curricular projects. Seventy-two pages include student pages and teacher notes sized for common classroom use. Picture kids quietly marking evidence in margins, sharing discoveries aloud, then surprising you with sharp answers.

Key Features:

• Support for Close Reading: It walks students through short passages so they learn to notice details, infer meaning and cite evidence.
• Cross-Curricular Activities: Activities link stories to art, science and writing so kids build background knowledge and stay curious.
• Text-Dependent Questions: Carefully sequenced prompts train young readers to reread, compare passages and explain answers in full sentences.
• Age-Appropriate Lessons: Lessons and reproducibles match kindergarten through third-grade levels, keeping expectations high but accessible.
• Teacher-Ready Lesson Plans: Ready-to-use teacher pages save prep time while offering differentiation options for struggling and advanced students.

Quick Specs:

• Brand: Shell Education
• Item#: SHL-40009
• Series: Great Works: An Instructional Guide for Literature
• Format/Type: Printed Book
• Quantity/Pack: 1 Each
• Compatibility/Use: Book is designed for children in kindergarten through third-grade.
• Country of Origin: United States

Picture your classroom humming with talk, quick evidence-based responses and confident readers, and would you like to try a copy in your next unit?

Author Arnold Lobel, published 2014, seventy-two pages.